Tag: disney
REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)
I saw Haunted Mansion this weekend. Coming out a week after “Barbenheimer,” I didn’t expect anything from this film, and I don’t think anyone else did, either. Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, Disney’s theme park adaptations don’t tend to do well finan...
Read MoreDonald Glover to Write Lando Series with his Brother
Remember Lando, the Lando Calrissian show Lucasfilm has been planning? Me neither, but it’s in the news again because, in a shocking development you’d never expect on a Lucasfilm project, the series’ writer, Justin Simien, has been replaced. According to an exclusive from Above the Line, Donal...
Read MoreStephanie Beatriz Wants More Encanto
Stephanie Beatriz sat down for a recent interview with The Wrap, which was conducted before the actors’ and writers’ strikes began. Although she was mostly talking about her new Peacock show, Twisted Metal, she did discuss her Disney animated film Encanto. Check out her comments here: “I would...
Read MoreREVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”
“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...
Read MoreThe Lesson of Barbenheimer: Not Everything Has To Be For You
This past weekend was the “Barbenheimer” showdown, with two big releases arriving at the same time in the middle of a dud-filled summer. According to the trailers (I’m not getting into whether anything was woke because this isn’t about that – well, not in terms of these two movies), it was...
Read MoreDisney May Delay The Marvels and Other Films
Bloomberg, after speaking with “people familiar with the matter,” is reporting that Disney and Marvel are considering delaying some of their upcoming movies, including The Marvels, due to the WGA and SAG strikes. Actors don’t do press or red carpets for a project while on strike, i...
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